Scammers are impersonating farming sim Coral Island, with added NFTs


Halloween could be over, however island farming sim Coral Island seems to have generated a doppelganger on social media that has a hankering for NFTs. Coral Island’s builders Stairway Games have introduced consideration to the rip-off account, which makes use of the actual sport’s brand and key artwork however provides an additional web3 cryptobro twist by linking itself to the GameFi blockchain gaming platform. Stairway, as you’d, are calling shenanigans.

Coral Island is a slice-of-life indie farming sim.


“We are not an NFT sport and the web page under has no affiliation to Coral Island,” Stairway tweeted, alongside with a picture of the spoofing account. The NFT account solely started posting a couple of days in the past however, oddly, was created again in March 2020. Unlike Stairway’s real-world location of Indonesia, the NFT spoofers are, after all, situated within the Metaverse. They’ve additionally arrange their very own Discord server, Instagram account, and an entire web site purporting to be Stairway.


It’s good to see that the rip-off account has misplaced 90% of its followers since Stairway posted to alert folks, dropping from 2500 to a mere 222 at time of writing. Stairway have been engaged on Coral Island for years and solely launched it into early entry a couple of weeks in the past. It’s unlucky that somebody has chosen to focus on a small indie sport like this. Responders to Stairway’s tweet stated they’d reported the account to Twitter for impersonation. It is not the primary time one thing like this has occurred, with scammers concentrating on sci-fi crafting sport Outerverse earlier this yr.


Alice Bee loved taking part in the precise sport in her Coral Island early entry evaluation final month, significantly its useful recyclable trash useful resource. “The explicitly ecological angle on Coral Island, the place the extra you present native produce, and the cleaner you make the seabed, the upper the city’s score goes, shall be motivation sufficient for some folks,” she stated. “But Coral Island integrates it into the way you play, so you will kind of find yourself caring in regards to the atmosphere by proxy if not by altruism.”


The actual Coral Island is in early entry on Steam for £20/$25/€25. It doesn’t comprise any NFTs.